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The royal politician represented in one hundred emblems (1700)

Saavedra Fajardo, Diego de, 1584-1648, Astry, James, Sir · London Printed for M. Gylliflower and L. Meredith · leaf 176

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im be content to maintain his Crown bythe fame means his Anceftors did. It feems to be thiswhich God would admoniih Princes of, (though in a-nother Sence) by Ezekkl the Prophet (19), when hefaidj bind the tire of thine Head to thee; if any oneihall wear it too loofé, twill be very apt to fall off.… … IUftice is the Center from which the Circumferenceof a Crown is drawn. If we could live withoutone, there would be no need of t other. In former times all Princes Judges were,And to fee Jufice done, was all their Care, In the firft Age there was po need of Puniihment., forthere were no Crimes ¿ nor…

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